Also known as 0707
Where: Colombia (11.1° N, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 59.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Foveotricolpites perforatus pollen zone, Cerrejón Formation, Middle Paleocene to Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithified, silty, sandy siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: S. L. Wing, F. Herrera, C. A. Jaramillo, C. Gómez-Navarro, P. Wilf and C. C. Labandeira. 2009. Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia, are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(44):18627-18632 [P. Wilf/M. Donovan/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 134753: authorized by Peter Wilf, entered by Mike Donovan on 15.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
Euphorbiaceae "CJ24" Jussieu 1789 spurge | |
unclassified | |
Pteridophyta "CJ81" Haeckel 1875 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Stenochlaena "CJ57" Smith 1842 |